| December 17th 1965 | | Dutch govt shuts Limburgs coal mine
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| December 17th 1965 | | Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50›)
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| December 17th 1967 | | WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
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| December 17th 1969 | | 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
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| December 17th 1969 | | USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
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| December 17th 1970 | | Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
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| December 17th 1970 | | US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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| December 17th 1970 | | USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
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| December 17th 1971 | | "Diamonds are Forever" premieres in US
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| December 17th 1971 | | Cease fire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
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| December 17th 1971 | | Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
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| December 17th 1972 | | New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
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| December 17th 1972 | | WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
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| December 17th 1973 | | Arabs terrorists shoot passengers on Boeing 737 to Kuwait
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| December 17th 1975 | | 1st time NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
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